Qualcomm
Senior Machine Learning Engineer – End-to-End Autonomous Driving
$141K–$211K
San Diego, California · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 23, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum: 2+ years with a bachelor’s degree, 1+ year with a master’s degree, or no years specified with a PhD. Preferred: 5+ years of industry or research experience in relevant fields.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field; OR master’s degree in those fields; OR PhD in those fields. Preferred: master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Robotics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
About the job
Develop and deploy end-to-end autonomous-driving machine-learning systems, including driving planners, training pipelines, simulation, and safety evaluation.
What you'll do
- Design and optimize autonomous-driving models, including behavioral planning and trajectory generation.
- Build scalable training, validation, deployment, simulation, and closed-loop evaluation pipelines.
- Investigate failure cases and improve robustness, safety, and performance; collaborate across engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and 2+ years of related work experience; OR master’s degree in those fields and 1+ year of related work experience; OR PhD in those fields.
- Strong programming skills in Python, PyTorch, and C++ (preferred).
- Deep understanding of machine learning, deep learning, neural network design, computer vision, transformers, representation learning, or multimodal learning.
- Experience training and evaluating large-scale deep-learning models and building end-to-end ML workflows from data ingestion through deployment.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of industry or research experience in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, robotics, or autonomous driving.
- Experience in autonomous driving, planning, trajectory prediction, reinforcement or imitation learning, simulation, or model optimization.
Pay
$140,800.00 - $211,200.00 USD (pay range; salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, C++, ONNX, TensorRT
AI focus
Build end-to-end autonomous-driving AI, including multimodal and Vision-Language-Action models, goal-conditioned driving policies, AI-based planners, and large-scale training and safety-evaluation systems.
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